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HOME EDITION When you slip on the street don't ii Hwwear. Think of the fun you are afford. {iil ng the general public. ONLY SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, OMAN’S SLAYER FREE RY VINDICATES MAN WHO CHLOROF WOMAN AT HER REQUEST—NOTED KISSIMMEE, Fla, Dee ment to eut out of this | The an had b colony here Gillette yu age ment that >» were and painracked Sadie Marchant,” a rut nk al been in jail nearly ple altered the gether wi woman member of the littl colony FTHEL CONRAD) Here's « Grand TELLING HEA L__4_ cTOR Press Leased Wire) Newyork. Dec. 18.—“W. E. D. @tokes ruined me, he never paid Die debts, he never kept his prom fesn He was a man absolutely without character.” Describ: her connection with gn alleged attempt to murder Mil- Stokes, for which she and Graham are on trial here, Conrad today gave the above ‘ga the Graham girl's description of man that the twa are accused having plotted to kill. Ghe's a Clever Witness ‘The Conrad girl was an adept She possessed age legal knowledge, enabling ber answering when she did desire. She often asked Judge a] if she was compelled to an- D gwer certain questions and the ‘gourt invariably ruled in her favor. Miss Conrad testified that she first worked on the stage for $25 g week, later joining Mrs. Leslie company, When asked if ghe was vot discharged from the fgompany because of the notoriety t upon an alleged taking ‘an dverdose of laudanum, Miss teen denied that she was die - or that she had ever at- suicide. She explained she had accidentally taken too laudanum when a victim of ta Denies Stories “Did you receive Jim Parley, the strike F fa whose house you lived in Platts or from lazy Cramer, the / lawyer?” asked Prosecutor Buck- "Positively not,” replied the wit Gde also denied that she had ORMED TO DEATH PAIN-RACKED ‘ SHAKER TRAGEDY CLOSED. 13.—The Osceola county grand jury tacitly It found no bill against Brother Egbert ¢ caused a ripple of interest but little surprise, indictment would be returned against the ged to have chloroformed a woman at her two months and during all that time his demeanor has He never for an instant seemed to think his actions had been wre | and seemingly straightforward demeanor which w its indorse assisting gave rillette, accused of as for several days there members of the Shaker own request ng and never as his when arrested, to Opera Star Really Pretty! Sheriff Hammel of Los Angeles their boat drew near. dyn. Dear Miss Grey: yet. I want a pair of roller sk Mamma always gets them such mas presents, The: Stocking ‘s «a letter home straight where the stern Sioner ly at an end for typhoid germs. and sparkling, free from all faucets te the most sign The doctor has usive bacilli will I am a little girl, 12 ates real ba from @ child's heart the little ones of real Christmas cheér. bills,” which piled up when “papa was out of work two winters,” 80 she has to buy such “tiny dolls,” The Star has Biue Eyes’ name and address and will be glad to furnish them to some Star reader who will volunteer to play Santa for thewe little girla who have never had one good Christmas. The final tests show the water cle First Woman Juror DEC. 13, 1911 Pointing out San Quentin penitentiary to Next to the sheriff is John, and next to him is Jim, who is under life sentence for amiting the Low Angeles Times building, in which 21 persons lost their tives. A Little Girl Who Has Never Had One Good Xmas. , and I atiny one. Papa only gets a two winters, and mamma believes in paying the old grocery bills, so we don’t get any Christ-| So I thought I would write t6 Cynthia Grey, because you help every one put my name in the paper, but tell me what to do or if you can help me who would like one good Christmas. battle of the parents to provide Mamma, brave woman. HERE'S GOOD NEWS; WATER O. K. Let the water run for fully two minutes. After that, tomorrow morning, it is safe to drink the clear Cedar river water without boiling it announcement is made by Dr, Crichton, Thus the big Seattle water famine will be official This welcome health commis- been making tests every day ar danger. By turning on all norrow morning, inelnding garden hose faucets, be tagged with the skiddoo rs ‘in Murder It portrays the situation “belleves “ever supported Lillian Graham or cenyone else. ) When asked if she and Miss Gra- ) together had not composed the z fetter” of Lillian’s, in| “which the denounced Stokes as ible for her act,.and then tarbolic acid, Miss Conrad re- “That is absurd.” YNAMITE BY IRATE SETTLERS je sPORANE, Dec. 13.—Fearing thet irate settlers may carry out a to dynamite the plant and of FEAR the Washington Water Pow ion-doliar plant is ‘The settlers above the plant are e appraisers award- ed them $24,000 for their lands Which were damaged by the dam > @ertiow and which, they assert, is Shout one-half the value of the land. Unknown Quantity; ~ Second Woman SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 13 --An ) tmknown quantity—a second wom- @a—has been brought into the | Goodman murder case, John Rog: | @t, the suspect, declaring at the Preliminary hearing that “Camille” | JEANNETT Little Jeannette Alvina, who hap- pens to be in Seattie this week, has several things about her which make her a girl of unusual interest. ler in grand opera— ily pretty. Now, THERE'S a combination for you. Of course, the women of grand opera are nice and attractive, and have splendid voices, but even Gave him the diamond which he in turn gave to Hazel Smith. Rogers bas accused so many per-| fons of complicity in the theft of 7 the $5,000 worth of gems from Benj. A. Goodman after the victim Was killed on the Barbary coast here that the police do not believe > their investigation of the part Played by mille” in the crime Will result in anything tangible. | 1,500 Ft. to Death PARIS, Dec. 13—Falling 1,500 feet in his monoplane, Lieut. Chas. leaume, a well-known aviator, Was killed near Etamps today While flying from Melun to Dinew, hie sisters. He had wired the ladies that he would be over for \ dinner and was within sight of their home in Etamps when the ac- ¢ident occurred. | GREELEY, Dec. 13.—A deep, Jag-| Ged hol. r | jé surrounded by a peculiar | Colored dust has been discovered 15 miles northeast by a farm hand, | 4nd is supposed to be the spot! struck by the meteor seen earlier {n the week. | lmit that they run ofre grand opera people will have to ad to vol than good looks. Perfection is tainly hard to attain, and it's a fun ny fact—or perhaps it isn’t funny at all—that beautiful faces and beautiful voices rarely combine. Jeannette is the exception proves the rule. And just to make her cup of blessings run over, she has some real braing in that pretty little headpiece, and a message to give “Please,” said the Lambardi op- era star to @ Star interviewer to-| “please give a message from | day, me to your American girls, TELL THEM TO STUDY IN AMERICA, GO TO EUROPE TO MAKE THEIR REPUTATIONS, AND THEN, FINALLY, COME BACK TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY FOR HEIR REWARD.” Here’s one more word from the ir Alvina “When iriends ‘speak, put wax in your ears. Our friends are terrible fa’ EXPECT ARREST OF A BIG LABOR LEADER (By United Press Leased Wire) LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 13— The Times dynamiting case is not to end with the sentencing to San Quentin penitentiary of James B. and John J, MeNamara, This much was made plain here this af: ternoon when Assistant District Attorney Ford positively announced ly she shops, early she buys, Proving that she is thoughtful and wise, that a prominent SanFrancisco la ‘bor leader, who has not been heard from since he left New York for the Pacific coast, after the Atlanta that | + | correspondence Case Excused From Duty After anewering al! questions sat: |The murder case is that against isfactorily, even satisfying the state | Frank Lombardi, who is accused of having shot Frank Brees! and killed # to her opinions on capital Pun | nim on September 30, following a lishment, Mra. Sylvia R. Beckwith, racial controversy. Lombardi is 1911 Eighth av. the first Seattle ak English. woman to be called as a tentative! The jury was completed at noon Juror on a first degree murder case, today, and Murphy will make his waa nevertheless dismissed from opening statement this afternoon. the jury box on a peremptory chal-\The widow of the doce lenge by Prosecuting Attorney Mur. five of her little children, one phy thie morning. She was passed them born after the death of Its for cause by both sides, and was the father, occupy seats inside the rail last juror challenged by the state. |set off for attorneys. E ALVINA jto us; they aro In league against us to gratify our vanity at no matter what cost She speaks from experience, she | says And she gives her warning | to American girix who desire to tri-| jumph tn music | |. Jeannette Alvina was captured | by art when she saw Anna Paviowa | |dance. “I saw that she moved her audionces,” she said. “I saw that she did not speak, much less sing yet she conveyed her conception of | |life to the minds before her. “So I went home, opened my win. dows and began to think, I saw I must have an understanding of the emotions of the human soul; T must jhave grace to offset my lack of beauty—no, don't put that down, I AM beautiful.” She laughed, clapping her hand over her face and peeping out |throngh her f.ngers. And she won the secret of dincov- lering the emotions, and she HAS beauty as well ARRESTED ON INDICTMENT Albert Sweeney, in charge of a school purporting to discourse education on railroad | work, was arrested this morning} on one of the indictments returned | by the federal grand jury yester: day before adjourning. He is ac jcused. of having used the malls for fraudulent purposes by inducing lone Aleck Tomm to part with $500 in consideration of a partnership of the correspondence school. Jeonvention, would be arrested and vigorously prosecuted for the part he is alleged to have played in the dynamiting of the Times building. “This man,” said Ford, “is direct: | ly responsible for the loss of 2 lives in the blowing up of the Times building. We know that John J. McNamara sent. Jim out! here avith the understanding that| he was to do the work required of} him by this San Francisco labor | leader, and it was this man who ordered Jim McNamara to dyna mite the Times building, Veteran Miners In Desperate Fight to Rescue Victims (my United Press Leased Wire) jure the trail by which the reseu BRICEVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 12.—|are following Miller and his © Somewhere in the depths of the | baulons wrecked Cross Mountain coal mine,| wGoing to No. 36" reads the last three miles beneath the surface, | message on the wall. Twenty-five Sam Miller, the oldest miner em-/members of the government life ployed by the company, and a crowd | saving party, eqiupped with safety of helpers are playing hide and seek | helmets, have started for gallery 36 with death, while a rescue party | To get there they will not only have are hazarding their own lives to|to chop thelr way through wreck ve them. jage, but they must fight through a Fire has added to the danger of | wall of fire, the extent of which is the entombed and starving miners, | problematical, They fear the fire and is making more difficult the|may be eating toward the impris- work of rescue. Many of the gal-joned miners, but they rely on leries are aflame, and smoke com-|Miller’s knowledge of the mine to pels the rescuers to work in short | stave off death until safety reaches shifts. Chalk marks on the wall | them. “Going to No. 36.” California Asks for Popular : Election of President er of presidential choice within a few pivotal states—that it is use: less for republicans to vote in Texas and for democrats to go to the polls in Pennsylvania. The people of 35 states, he said, waste thelr time when they ballot for president NOT ENGAGED YET (By United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.— Reports of the engagement of Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the president, and J. Cotten Smith were denied from the White House today, and also by Smith himself. J. Cotton Smith is a young Washington business man, son of Roland Cotton Smith, one of the most prominent Episco- palian ministers in the national capital. TVEITMOE MISSING | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13.—The | whereabouts of Olaf A. ‘Tveitmoe, president of the San Francisco Labor Counell, and Anton Johann- sen, a fellow official, continues to puzzle the federal authorities. Noth ing bas been heard from Tveitmoe since he left New York for the Pa cific coast vention of the Ame of Labor at Atlante RHR KEKKAKKE KK % WEATHER FORECAST % Rain tonight and Thursday; lw moderate southeast winds. |wLemperature at noon, 47. Peete re eee eres 2) (By United Prone Leased Wire) CAPITOL—SACRAMENTO, Dec 12.—Without a dissenting vote, the California senate today adopted a resolution calling upon congress to submit a constitutional amendment providing for the election of prest. dent and vice president by direct popular and nation-wide vote In defense of the resolution, Les tor Sanford declared that the elec toral college concentrates the pow. Two Trips Daily We make two trips daily to our lands situate north and east of the city, We go rain or shine. This land is selling rapidly at 400 Per Acre On terms of $10 cash, $7.50 per month, Macadamized boulevard all the way except half a mile. Why not look this over? | | ican Federation Ga, OLE HANSON & CO. Third Floor New York Block after attending the con-| The Seattle Star INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. McNamara brothers, as ars old and we have never had a good Christmas | ¢ two little sisters that want a big doll. little money, was out of work Please don't} From the little girl BLUE EY in many an “Empty the bare necessities robs paying the old grocery even in New Angle to Awful Tangle Now comes Pauline A. Miller and asks $50,000 damages from Mrs. Maybe th Hof living is Shwa Sr a A"R, —— ee HOME EDITION In iit he real reason of the high cost | that so many folks are trying | to raise their own garden truck. IG ST (By Untted Press Leased Wire) Sarah A. Gust for defamation of character The Gust-Gust-Miller beats a picture puzzle. began the tangle when she sued Adolph A. Gust for divorce, named | Mies Miller, his bookkeeper as the troublesome affinity, and asked in alimony part of the Gust $200,000 te, In addition she sued Mins ler for $40,000 alienation of af Mins Miller came right jand Mra. he la 5,000, which re because she was tner of Gust in some of his estate business, And now again, there is her $50,000 sult Noble Gaekwar | In Scandal (BY United Press Les: LONDON, Dec, ‘a The Gackwar of Baroda, one of India’s wealthiest and fore- most ruling princes now attend. ing the Durbar at Deihi, hai been brought into a sensational divorce action here, application having been made to the court asking permission to cite him a8 co-respondent Members of European royalty are declared to be the prin- cipals, BRANDEIS STRONG FOR 9.HOUR LAW y United Press Leased Wire) C@.UMBUS, 0., Dec. 12.—Attor ney Louis D. Brandeis, Boston. at torney, pleaded for the upholding of the constitutionality of the woman's nine-houra-day law today in aa ex haustive brief submitted to the su | preme court hirty-one states and 13 foreign countries have passed laws limiting the working hours of women, and none have ever been repealed,” says Brandeis. COW GOES DRY WITH COUNTY ASHTABULA, A few weeks ago his little place in Harpersfieid, keeping only his favorite fam. lly cow, and moved to Geneva, expecting to open a saloon there if the county voted wet. He stayed downtown late election night, while the re- turns were showing that the drys were victorious. Finally a friend asked him, “Who's go- ing to milk your cow? “The cow,” he repeated. “Why, that pesky critter has gone dry, too.” Madam! Here You | Everything | for Him! | Robes, $3.50 and $5.00 1's Smoking Jackets. .85.00 Suspenders, Sox and Gar put up in attractive box ; : $1.00 § Men's Handkerchiefs, box of 6 . - $1.00 of Cuff in plush vs $1.00 Hundreds of Others. Are, Men's Bath F Sets, consisting nd Scarf Pin Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex is warfare | jback with a suit against both Mr.| GIBRALTAR, Dec. 13.—The Brit- aboard of which were the Duke and Duchess of Fife, Princess Alexandra and Princess Maud, went ashore near Cape Tra- faigar in a fierce gale early today, been rescued, the French cruiser Briant having succeeded in reach- ing the ship after lifeboats had failed and hope was almost aban- doned. Took the One Chance. The government sought to land EAMER — RUNS ASHORE Liner With a British Duke and Two English Princesses on Board Is Wrecked Near Gibraltar—Passengers and Crew Rescued in Thrilling Manner by French Warship. | passenger list included the names lof many Americans. Women and children aboard were numerous. When she ran ashore the passengers were on the verge of panic, when they were held in check by the promise that life boats could easily be launched. But when this was attempted it failed, Duke Helps Some. The steamer London and the cruisers Duke of Edinburgh and Weymouth were off Cape Spartela at the time, They immediately, started for the scene, but the storm prevented them reaching the Delhi, soldiers with life saving apparatus on the coast near the wreck, but the high seas prevented the men from getting asho It was then! that the captain of the French war thip took the one che left, and managed to accomplish what emed an impossibility Americans on Board. While a w aging this morning and the t was hidden in heavy fog, the Delhi ram aground She bound for While the cruisers were doing their best to reach the Delhi she was be- ing pounded to pieces by the moun- tains of water sweeping her decks, And the passengers were becoming desperate. The Duke of Fife ase sisted the officers to quell their fear. The Delhi is one of the finest ships in the Oriental service. She carried a number of the British no- bility, who were expecting to spend Seypt, and her the winter holidays in Egypt. HOT WAVE FOR DECEMBER. NEW YORK, Dec. 13—Gripped by a hot wave, which i oughout the East, people here are con- selves today on having passed the warm- 1 for December 12. The thermometer reg rees at 2 o'clock, the closest previous years being 1 nd 1899, when it registered 59. In the Berkshire hills the maple sap is running as in spring, and the pussy willows are blooming. MIX DRINKS TO SUICIDE Mrs. A. M. E. Eastmann mixed drinks last night. First she took hair tonic straight, with a chaser of helio- trope cologne. In all there were five liquids of different and strengtt—and car- id was the last one on es reco tered 60 de | |HE ALLEGES SHE’S ‘(00 MUCH MARRIED “I am tired of this single life,” spake~A. G. Adams unto Eleanor Irvin “So am I," quoth she in answer. Whereupon the winged one toolé the hinech, and Adams helped Ele- anor up Profanity hill, last August 30, where they got a marriage li- cense and were then happily mar. |ried. Which bliss remained unmar- |red until November 10. "Twas then |that Adams, who is employed in the fire department, learned that {Eleanor was already a married |woman when he married her. So he jalleged in his application, this |morning, for an annulment of the marriage. She married one Edwin |M. Johnson, he says, in 1906, and iS IT A SHINE OR A POLISH? — PLEASE ANSWER THIS “Shine or Polish, 5 Cents” You've seen the Now, what is the difference between a shine and a polish? Abraham Lincoln Thomas Jefferson Jack Johnson, en- gineer of one of those portable shoe- shine stands in a Third: av, hair-cut factory, thus answered the conun- drum: “Shure, Ah o'n answer that polish {s & cross between.” See? Simple, isn’t it? isn't. The chap in charge of the Liber ty building polish (or shine) empo- rium, elucidated thuswise “Oh, shine or polish, you say? Why, ‘where you goin’ to git the shine if you ain't got the polish? Why, no one’d come in if the sign only said shine, Y'got to have both, see?” Six shining artists on Washington st., after much manipulation of lan- guage that sounded like a battle In Tripoli, came to the conclusion that it must be a secret trade mark, and that some ono forgot the combina: tion. ‘Then, in front of one little stall, there ‘was the illuminating (or should we say shining?) sign: the lis The woman was taken from room 418 of the Archibald hotel at midnight and rushed to the city hospital for medical treat- ment. She is now out of dan- ger. She but 20, and a daughter of W. M. Pelkey of Snohomish. A ‘es, it 8 YOO THINK You KNOW? —YOURE LEFT /N DounT-— led by latest Parisian fashion joun “Shoes shined on the inside. nals, But, anyhow, there wasn't That's a new one, you know, The/any polish mentioned. So once [practice hasn't been quite authoriz-lagain the quiz was put,

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